David Brooks, the in-house “conservative” at the New York Times, nailed it on a Sunday talk show when he said it’s a hyper political view of everything that’s the real scandal of the Obama administration.

“Second terms are generally hit with scandals,” Brooke said on Meet the Press. “In the Obama administration, you’re not going to have a monetary scandal. These people are not financially corrupt. You’re not going to have a sexual scandal. But they are very politica...

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In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, we hear that the FBI was informed by Russia that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a Muslim radical, but even after he spent six months in Chechenya, the FBI decided he wasn’t worth a second look.  As a result, the FBI has come in for a great deal of criticism.  I’m not saying it’s not warranted, but I suspect there’s a lot of blame to spread around.  And, at the risk of sounding like Obama, some of it can be laid at the feet of George W. Bush.

It wasn’t...

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